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Aged care services and residential aged care
Analyse the care needs of an elderly patient and utilise the aged care services available to best meet those needs.
Overview
What you will learn
- Recognise key clinical features and subtypes
- Develop practical treatment plans using topical, systemic and procedural options
- Identify triggers, patient factors and long-term management strategies
- Apply evidence-based approaches in everyday clinical practice
Course contents
Meet your presenter
Assoc. Professor Debbie Kors
Course Chair
MBBS (first class honours)
General practitioner and GP supervisor
Associate Professor Debbie Kors is the founder and joint owner of a private teaching general practice in Port Macquarie, Australia. She works there as a general practitioner and GP supervisor of GP registrars and medical students.
A/Prof Kors is a passionate advocate for the profession of general practice. She is a Conjoint Associate Professor in Primary Health Care at the UNSW Rural Clinical School, Port Macquarie campus and has previously worked as a senior medical educator with North Coast GP Training. In 2010, she was nominated for and won the General Practice Education and Training GP Supervisor of the Year award.
A/Prof Kors holds a MBBS (first class honours), Fellowship of the RACGP, Masters of Family Medicine (clinical), Diploma of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Graduate Diploma of Medical Education and a Certificate of Family Planning.
CPD hours
Accreditations
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
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